We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.

There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their faith.

Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins.

My advice is if we can't replace Obamacare by ourselves, to go to the Democrats and say this. 10% of the sick people in this country drive 90 percent of the cost for all of us. Let's take those 10 percent of really sick people, put them in a federal managed care system so they'll get better outcomes, and save the private sector market if we can't do this by ourselves. That's a good place to start.

The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.